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Wow…Thumbs down for mehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/wowthumbs-down-for-me/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/wowthumbs-down-for-me/#commentsTue, 29 May 2007 20:58:26 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/wowthumbs-down-for-me/]]>Well looks like I did what lots of bloggers do…. I let me blog go… stopped updating it….

Let me see what I can come up with and get this baby back up in no time.

]]>http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/wowthumbs-down-for-me/feed/0passtheremoteTime to get writinghttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/time-to-get-writing/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/time-to-get-writing/#commentsTue, 10 Apr 2007 18:47:10 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/time-to-get-writing/]]>Well for the last three weeks I have been busy, flying all over thi country of ours for work, so I’ve neglected this blog. In the upcoming days I will rectify this, since lots fo interesting things have been happening in Canadian Television….stay tuned

Well well well…. Wow… what can I say, I loved last nights season finale. So many questions remain unanswered and so many fans will be in agony waiting for next year’s debut!

Baltar’s not guilty verdict, was abvious, since he’s the perfect anti-hero, and if you think about i, he may by guilty of many things, but he is by no means responsible for it all.

We get a sneak peak at 4 news cylons, but the jury is still out on this one for me. Lets just say, we need a bit more information before making up our minds as to whether they are or not. Also the show ends with Lee seeing Starbuck next to him, and then the camera panning out showing the Cylons starships, and then zooiming in the Earth…. what till 2008 hold for Fans of BSG!

On a last note, what should we make of these daydreams that the president has, about the 6 Baltar and the Baby…. what does it all mean… I think there lies the truth.

]]>http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/battlestar-galactica-3/feed/0passtheremoteNo new money for the Canadian television fundhttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/no-new-money-for-the-canadian-television-fund/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/no-new-money-for-the-canadian-television-fund/#commentsWed, 21 Mar 2007 09:21:16 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/no-new-money-for-the-canadian-television-fund/]]>This Monday, the Harper government unveiled their their budget, and to no ones surprise it maintained funding for the CTF and 1996 levels. It kunda makes you wonder why create a fund if you never intended to finance it properly. Now I know that it wasn’t the conservatives that created it, but I hope that they will have the courage to ax it, instead of just letting it spoil from a lack of funding and lack of a plan. Thats what liberals do… not conservatives.

]]>http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/no-new-money-for-the-canadian-television-fund/feed/0passtheremoteCRTC – Here we go again!http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/crtc-here-we-go-again/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/crtc-here-we-go-again/#commentsThu, 15 Mar 2007 13:40:51 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/crtc-here-we-go-again/]]>On March 27th the CRTC will be hearing arguments from different television license holders in order to decide which channel should be in the basic packages offered by Cable and Satelite companies. The Contenders are channels such as the weather network, Newsworld and YTV. They would like the CRTC to guarantee them a spot along with the CBC, TVA, CTV, Global, and some others that I con’t name right now.

Can someone please tell me why I need to have any channel forced down my throat when subscribing to cable or satelite… Why can’t we pick the channels that we want to watch. Its not like having these makes me watch them, it only gives me more channels to surf over when trying to find something to watch from those channels that I did want on my dial.

What we need as a country is for citizen/consumers to be treated as adults, with the ability to watch TV that we want with little or no interference from burocratic entities created by Ottawa.

ok…end of rant.

]]>http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/crtc-here-we-go-again/feed/0passtheremoteGoodbye rural Canada – So asks the CBChttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/goodbye-rural-canada-so-asks-the-cbc/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/goodbye-rural-canada-so-asks-the-cbc/#commentsWed, 14 Mar 2007 12:47:35 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/goodbye-rural-canada-so-asks-the-cbc/]]>The CBC has asked the CRTC the right to stop the broadcasting their analogue signal to Rural Canada. I guess that some technocrat up at the CBC made a calculation that proves that they could save X amount of money if this was done. Whether or not maney could be saved, I am shocked but not surprised that they would want to do such a thing.

The CBC needs a wake-up call. I hope that we will see a re-vamping of the CBC, where they will be set-up in a PBS like system of commercial free television. The CBC’s need to make money and to compete for commercial reevenues has forced the CBC to lose its soul. How could they even consider such a thing, as to cut-off rural Canada. If the CBC leaves, so will everyone else. Its their duty to broadcast coast-to-coast and its their main redemption that Canada still believes that the CBC means something. Why go and shoot yourself in the foot, by acting like CTV or Global.

Well after a huge episode last week, we were presented a much more subdued episode this week where we were introduced to the unpredictable lawyer Lampkin. He is Baltar’s new lawyer, replacing the now dead original lawyer, that got blown up at the opening credits.

Lots of build up to the final two shows, the introduction of Lampkin (adama trained according to him) Lee taking his role as protector of the defence to heart and we see both Adama’s strugling with StarBuck’s demise.

Is CBC news biased? According to Tom Flanagan, a political science professor at the University of Calgary and former Harper insider, he believes that their liberal left leaning point of view stops the CBC from delivering fair news content to Canadians. Using the latest reports that the CBC did regarding The Prime Minister’s announcement about appointing judges that would share his governments point of views above others.

You know, I live in Quebec right now and the same could be said of Radio-Canada, which was even publicly admonished by its own committee as having had a negative impact on the 2001 Quebec elections because of the way it portrayed the ADQ.

The CBC on the other had seems to be a little bit more professional, although it does seem to lean to the left a bit more then to the right. Most of us shrug off such leaning saying that with Global, CTV, TVA and TQS to compete with, its good to have a couple of broadcasters that show another point of view. I don’t agree with that logic. The CBC and Radio-Canada are publicly funded companies and benefit from a higher level of respect then all the other networks when it comes to their news content. We justify public funded television as a safeguard of our national identity, and I would tend to agree with that also. Moreover a publicly funded broadcaster has a duty to show us the news from every Canadians point of view, and therefor should do their best to be objective and live up to their mandate.

What seems to happen is human nature takes over, and people feel that they have free reigns to report the news in any fashion they see fit, which is fine, except that Canada is composed of people from every political spectrum including conservatives, so they deserve to be heard also.

Pressure groups, that have liberal leanings, get more airtime and media attention from the CBC then groups from the Right. I would rather see, more in depth reporting that would give us a clearer image of what is happening with the world around us then have to listen to one more interview, between a CBC reporter on Newsworld and some groups PR rep.. .filling in the blanks for a journalist that just doesn’t have the time to investigate anymore.

Only time will tell as to what will become of the CBC. We may have to save them from themselves.

Videotron announced that for those of you that cannot get enough of their hit show “La Banquier” that you can watch four more exclusive episodes only available to its digital cable subscribers.

An excellent example of cross marketing. TVA holds both the first and second place ranked shows with this series, since it airs twice a week, with numbers reaching up to 2 million viewers a show! TVA has according to BBM, a 27% marketshare of the quebec audience, which is twice as much as its nearest competitor Radio-Canada. All that being said… TVA was still in the red last year… somethings just don’t make any sense.

]]>http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/le-banquier-on-illico/feed/1passtheremoteIn memory of starbuckhttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/in-memory-of-starbuck/
http://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/in-memory-of-starbuck/#commentsWed, 07 Mar 2007 11:11:24 +0000passtheremotehttp://passtheremote.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/in-memory-of-starbuck/]]>I just can’t believe that this is the end of her in the show….

Lots of unanswered questions, why did she draw the scene of her death as a child, why deos it look like the eye of jupiter? Will we see her again, through other means…. is she a cylon…!!